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1. Why the Sea is SaltWhy the Sea Is Salt (Norwegian: Kvernen som maler på havsens bunn; the mill that grind at the bottom of the sea) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book (1889). It is a late derivation of the Old Norse poem Grottasöngr, found in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál. Georgios A. Megas collected a Greek variant The Mill in Folktales of Greece.
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